Where You Are: A Collection of Maps That Will Leave You Feeling Completely Lost

ISBN 10: 0956569242 / ISBN 13: 9780956569240

Published by Visual Editions Ltd, 2013

About this Item

Visual Editions- produce books that are as "visually interesting as he stories they tell". 16 writers artists and thinkers have contributed 16 personal maps each one exploring what a map can be. 16 fold out pamphlets with text and illustration, presented in a card board box . All fine apart from slight sellotape loss marks on side of box. See images for details of contributors who include Olafur Eliasson, Sheila heti, John Simpson, Alain de Botton and Joe Dunthorne.

Seller Inventory # 003239

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Where You Are: A Collection of Maps That Will Leave You Feeling Completely Lost
• Publisher: Visual Editions Ltd
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0956569242
• ISBN 13: 9780956569240
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Various
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Travel
  • Literature
  • Philosophy

About this title

Synopsis

Every day we map. We map how we get from a to b. We map when we’re somewhere new, and somewhere we’ve been many times before. We map ourselves, our days, our thoughts, memories, what we want to mark, save and share. Today it seems, that most of the time, despite all this mapping, we actually don't have a clear sense of where we are.

Where You Are, a collection of new work, explores the shift from our classic understanding of map as geography to a more personal, human map. This collection of new writings, photographs, drawings, thinking looks to explode the map as we know it. A book of maps that puts people, not destinations at the centre, hoping to leave readers feeling completely lost.

A collection of work, edited by Visual Editions, made with help by our friends at Google Creative Lab, published as a book and on the screen.

About the Author

Chloe Aridjis: Book of Clouds
Lila Azam Zanganeh: The Enchanter
James Bridle: New Aesthetic
Alain de Botton: Religion for Atheists
Joe Dunthorne: Submarine
Geoff Dyer: Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
Olafur Elliason: The New York City Waterfalls
Sheila Heti: How Should a Person Be
Valeria Luiselli: Faces in the Crowd
Leanne Shapton: Was She Pretty
John Simpson: World Affairs Editor, BBC World News
Craig Taylor: The Londoners
Adam Thirlwell: Kapow!
Peter Turchi: Maps of the Imagination
Will Wiles: Care of Wooden Floors
Denis Wood: The Power of Maps
Tao Lin: Shoplifting from American Apparel